{"product_id":"the-strange-non-death-of-neo-liberalism-hardback-9780745651200","title":"The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism (Hardback) 9780745651200","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eColin Crouch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745651200, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.395 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A highly approachable and illuminating argument in political economy ... The story is packed with thought-provoking reframings: financial irresponsibility is now a 'collective good'; and 'the idea of a \"job\"' now seems very weird to me indeed.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This highly accessible book makes its case persuasively.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"a valuable book that not only gives a very good overview of neo-liberalism and its failings, but also points to government errors and serves as a good primer in such things as imperfect information in markets.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A rich and powerful book. It pushes towards an analysis of neoliberalism not as the set of liberalizing forces that it depicts itself as being, but rather as a grouping of impulses that have both hampered government and weakened market competition.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrooked Timber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An excellent contribution to the study of political economy that directly resolves the puzzle it has identified.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransfer: European Review of Labour and Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A well-reasoned and tightly argued analysis of our present predicament. Although written for the intelligent general reader, rather than subject specialists, his insights constantly provoke and illuminate. Far from being merely a dry dissection of neoliberal theory, the book also addresses how to make corporations behave better.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Politics Blog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Takes forward and moves beyond Karl Polanyi’s (1957) analysis of state\/market relationsto match the changing conditions of the twenty-first century.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Contemporary European Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The most important work on the political economy of modern capitalism since Keynes, Kalecki and Schonfield.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Colin Crouch shows how neoliberalism as embodied in large corporations brought about the Great Recession of 2007 and yet, ironically, they profited in wealth and power from it - at everyone else's expense. A compelling read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An excellent contribution to the debate about neoliberalism. Crouch gives us a tightly reasoned and well balanced critique of the neoliberal philosophy that contributed significantly to the 2008 financial crisis. And his call for a more frank discussion in civil society of the moral and ethical assumptions behind neoliberalism is a refreshing addition to the traditional call for simply bringing the state back in to tame market forces.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn L. Campbell, Dartmouth College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life of the giant corporation. This has been intensified, not checked, by the recent financial crisis and acceptance that certain financial corporations are ‘too big to fail'. Although much political debate remains preoccupied with conflicts between the market and the state, the impact of the corporation on both these is today far more important.  \u003cp\u003eSeveral factors have brought us to this situation:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe lobbying power of firms whose donations are of growing importance to cash-hungry politicians and parties\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe weakening of competitive forces by firms large enough to shape and dominate their markets\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe moral initiative that is grasped by enterprises that devise their own agendas of corporate social responsibility\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth democratic politics and the free market are weakened by these processes, but they are largely inevitable and not always malign. Hope for the future, therefore, cannot lie in suppressing them in order to attain either an economy of pure markets or a socialist society. Rather it lies in dragging the giant corporation fully into political controversy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout this Book xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Previous Career of Neoliberalism 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Market and Its Limitations 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Corporate Takeover of the Market 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Private Firms and Public Business 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Privatized Keynesianism: Debt in Place of Discipline 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 From Corporate Political Entanglement to Corporate Social Responsibility 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Values and Civil Society 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 What's Left of What's Right? 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 187\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407321493784,"sku":"9780745651200","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745651200.jpg?v=1784161522","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-strange-non-death-of-neo-liberalism-hardback-9780745651200","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}